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Anthony Spadafora

These smart bulbs can be hacked to steal your Wi-Fi password — what you need to know

A man controlling smart lights with his smartphone

Flicking light switches on and off is something you’ll never have to worry about with the best smart lights installed in your home. However, just like other smart home devices, they can be targeted and attacked by hackers.

TP-Link’s Tapo smart light bulbs are incredibly popular and part of the reason for this is that they’re significantly less expensive than Philips Hue lights. However, new research has discovered several vulnerabilities in the bulbs themselves as well as in the Tapo app that can be exploited by hackers to steal the Wi-Fi password to your home network.

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